This is another thing that is often considered a weakness when it really isn’t one. Being inexperienced at anything is never a weakness. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Lack of experience can often be not only a strength but an advantage!
How can this be so? For starters, it means you don’t have any bad habits you need to learn to undo before you can get good at whatever it is you’re learning. Not having to unlearn how to do something wrong before learning how to do it right can be a tremendous advantage.
Secondly, being inexperienced means you don’t have years of biases keeping you from seeing new opportunities or ways of doing things. Someone more experienced might dismiss an idea out of hand on the assumption that it won’t work, whereas you might try it and discover that it does work.
Finally, a lack of experience means others won’t have high expectations of you, giving you a chance to learn and gain skills without facing tremendous pressure. Use this time to your advantage!
While the above are all ways that lack of experience is an advantage rather than a weakness, to make them work for you, you need to overcome any self-doubt you have about your inexperience. That may be hard to do if you’ve bought into the line about lack of experience being a weakness.
Remind yourself why the above reasons make it a strength instead. Then focus on your other strengths -all of your natural skills, talents, and personality attributes that give you an edge.
Most importantly, don’t try to cover up your inexperience by pretending you’re an expert at something. That never goes well. People who do have a lot of experience will see right through that. Furthermore, it can create hostility towards you if other people think you’re being arrogant.
This means that the real weakness is pretending you have experience when you don’t. Instead, focus on how your lack of experience is a strength and utilize it to your advantage.
This technique applies to almost everything in life, from finding a new job to mastering a work skill to learning a new hobby. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to do something new in your professional or personal life. Lack of experience is never a weakness.